Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-06
EORT WORTH.

Rockwell Success: We do not expect
to, nor could we if we wanted to ever so
badly, write in one letter all that the good
people of Fort Worth have done for the
State Press Association. We have been
here only one day, but our stay, short as
it is, has served to rivet on our memory,
we trust es long IS life shall last, q kindly
feeling for the good people OF this Won
derful city on the green hills of TGrrGnt
county.
Arriving here at O'Clock this-Tues-
day-morning, committee, among whom
was one with an empty sleeve, assigned
Us to a hotel, the Ellis house, q princely
mansion of stone, governed and ably
governed, by the king OF hotel men, Ed
ward Muller, proprietor.
After day of routine business the con-
vention adjourned at 4 p. ~, and by in
vitation visited the mammoth establish
ment of the well-known grocer, Jos.
Brown. There the Success man fell into
the hands of Mr.. Browns shorthand
man, Mr.. j. r. Marmion, Jr., who took
him in hand, and in quiet, gentlemanly
way proceeded to show him more extern
sive sights in the grocery trade than he
ever dreamed of. Think of it; build
ing of heWn stone, 200 feet square, four
stories high, with storing capacity Of
400 cars of goods at one time, and then
not half full; the Office covering the en-
tire front, lighted by electric lights at
night and by an acre OF plate glass in the
day time; finished in Texas wood, oiled
and vanished until one was lost in
amazement at the splendor. No wonder
now that Brown has the trade on this
side OF Dallas, and III the rich counties OF
Collin, Rockwell and Hunt. He does not
look on newspaper men as beggars, but
as business men, and gives them share
of his advertising, regardless OF locality,
for The entire state of Texas is his terri
tory, and his men visit every place where
groceries are bought and sold.
After the visit to Browns, the Success
man was given in charge to clean
shaved, elegantly dressed Baptistpreecher,
named Morgan Wells, pastor OF the First
Baptist church at the Fort. This elegant
Kentuclian assisted him into his buggy,
behind his four-y ear-old brown Lexing-
ton mare, DAISY" pulled the laprobe
over his knees, and let the mare
"go long" The first place driven to
was Danlman's refrigerator and ice
factory, which we Will try to describe
from memory. 1t is on the river little
below the city, on s tWenty-seven and a
half acre plot Of land, well adapted to the
purposes intended for it. The cellar is
2OOx2UO feet, nine feet high, with foun-
dation of stone. The next story is 200X
200 feet, and is intended for q slaughter
room, in which they can kill and dress
fourteen head of cattle in ten minutes.
On the floor is en- offal room 100Xl00
feet, also q tallow room 100Xl00 feet.
The cooling places are eight rooms
holding each 275 dressed cattle, with
facilities for hanging up 500 more. An
ice and refrigerating room with two
large ice machines, with all the modern
Improvements; four boilers of seventy
five horsepower each in a room l00Xl00.
Water is supplied by two artesian wells
flowing into q reservoir. The foundation
and cellar Of this immense building are
of stone, with superstructure OF wood
substantially built, with stock and re-
Ceiving pens holding 1000 head of cattle;
with scales, side-Jracks and all the mod
ern Improvements. Mr.. Dahlman says
that with the expenditure of $50, 600 more
he can kill, dress, refrigerute ard load all
the cattle matured in Texas in twelve
months. And it is only question of
time when nearly all the cattle of North
Texas will be killed here, to say nothing
Of the thousands of longhorns coming
from West Texas and the plains of New
Mexico.